* District 9 ( 2009 ) Near the climax, the command module and an assortment of dirt and rocks were pulled towards the mother ship using a mildly illuminated array of tractor beams.

Near the climax of The Caves of Steel Elijah Baley makes a bitter comment to himself thinking that the First Law forbids a robot from harming a human being.

Near the climax of the film, Neo offers a deal with the Machines to get rid of Smith in exchange for Zion's safety, warning them that Smith is beyond their control and will eventually spread to the machine city, which will result in destruction of both mankind and machines.

Near the climax of The Matrix Reloaded, Neo meets the Architect face to face in a large oval-shaped room with two doors, whose walls are covered with television monitors.

Near the climax of the series, when Hikari attempts to persuade Mari to join her and Takeru on their journeys, Mari slaps Hikari and yells at her, saying that she is a backstabber and an awful friend, ultimately making Hikari change into her " evil " form to destroy the world.

As an example, McGinn cites the apocalypse in the Book of Daniel, which he sees as a record of historical events presented as a prophecy of future events and expressed in terms of " mythic structures ", with " the Hellenistic kingdom figured as a terrifying monster that cannot but recall Near Eastern pagan myth of the dragon of chaos ".

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern or contemporary events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria ( compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia ).

Near the ending, the events of the film itself are revealed to be a movie being enjoyed by the characters.

Albright, which sought to validate the historicity of the events narrated in the Bible through the ancient texts and material remains of the Near East, has little in common with the view of history described by archaeologist William Dever.

Near the end of the book, Slocum starts worrying about the state of his own sanity as he finds himself hallucinating or remembering events incorrectly, suggesting that some or all of the novel might be the product of his imagination, making him an unreliable narrator.

Near the center of the town the Shooting Range ( Skopeftirion ) was built to house events of the first modern Olympic Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics, and these first modern games took place in three venues: the refurbished ancient stadium of Athens ( Panathinaiko Stadium ) 2 km NE of Kallithea, the Neo Phaliron Velodrome ( currently Karaiskaki Stadium ) 2 km SW of Kallithea, and the Kallithea Shooting Range ( Skopeftirion ).

No discussion of the Hida's bravery and accomplishment during his fund raising missions is complete without mentioning his intact and published travel diaries, which places him in the ranks of Benjamin of Tudela in terms of providing a comprehensive first hand account of Jewish life and historical events throughout the Europe and Near East of his day.

Near the end of his life he took part in several large musical events in Rome, including a large Vespers at St. Peter's for which he batteva ( beat time ) for one of the choirs.

Further uses for the wristband in event ticketing at music festivals and sporting events may include an NFC ( Near Field Communications ) chip that would allow contactless payment at the concessions and turnstiles.

Hidaka is most known for the roles of Mikage Matsunaga ( Miracle Girls ), Minami Asakura ( Touch ), Akane Tendo ( Ranma ½ ), Satsuki Kusakabe ( My Neighbor Totoro ), Near ( Death Note ), Seta Sōjirō ( Rurouni Kenshin ), Jean Roque Raltique ( Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ), Kikyo ( InuYasha ), and Noriko Takaya ( Gunbuster ).

* The Secret of the Near East: Slavery of Women, Social, Religious and Economic Life in the Near East.

Near the casino is the " Hotel Palácio " ( Palace Hotel ), a 5-star hotel where scenes of the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service were shot.

* August 9 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army.

However, Vitruvius ' explanation is doubtful ; well before the Persian Wars, female figures were used as decorative supports in Greece and the ancient Near East.

Near the village green there is a War Memorial to the men of the area who died in the two World Wars.

With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.

The Near Eastern Iron Age is divided into two subsections, Iron I and Iron II.

Near the end of World War II, the city of about 340, 000 became capital of the Province of Magdeburg.

Near the end of World War II, the United States military invaded the Mariana Islands on June 15, 1944, beginning with the Battle of Saipan, which ended on July 9 with the Japanese commander committing seppuku ( a traditional Japanese form of ritual suicide ).

Following Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Near East and Central Asia, Cambyses II further expanded the empire into Egypt during the Late Period by defeating the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik III during the battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE.

Near the end of his first term, Mulroney gave a formal apology and a $ 300 million compensation package to the families of the 22, 000 Japanese Canadians who had been divested of their property and interned during World War II.

Near the war's end in December 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered Operation Linebacker II, a high-intensity Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aerial bombing campaign, which included hundreds of B-52 bombers that struck previously untouched North Vietnamese strategic targets, including heavy populated areas in Hanoi and Haiphong.

Near the site there is now a museum, and monuments of remembrance of those transported and killed during World War II.

Near Pointe des Almadies, the north-western tip of the cape, lies Dakar's international airport, famous as a transatlantic ferrying point during World War II.

Near the end of World War II, thousands of new jobs were created with the 1944 construction of a Naval Ammunition Depot across the Ouachita at Shumaker.

Near the end of World War II, a branch camp for German and Italian prisoners of war from Camp Rupert, near Buhl, Idaho, was established.

He published Marchamont Needham's book News from Brussels in a Letter from a Near Attendant on His Majesty's Person ..., which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, Charles II.

* Near the beach is a well-preserved section of the World War II Atlantic Wall.

Near the end of World War II, in 1944, the first of Gumbinnen's 24, 000 residents began to flee from the advancing Red Army, which was drawing close.

Near New Street Station was the Old Market Hall which had been damaged by bombing in World war II.

Near the end of World War II, there were two bombing raids carried out against the town: the first on 31 March 1945, the second a few days later.

Near the end of World War II, German troops destroyed all bridges crossing the Lusatian Neisse.

Radial velocity measurements of this star using the Near Infrared Spectrometer ( NIRSPEC ) instrument at the Keck II observatory have not revealed any variations that might otherwise indicate the presence of an orbiting companion.

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Near the end of World War II, last-ditch ersatz models were being made in various cost-cutting feature variations with the goal of cheaply bolstering the Imperial Armed Forces ; for example, the ovoid bulb-shaped bolt of earlier runs were replaced by a smaller and utilitarian cylindrical shape, the handguard on the barrel was omitted, and crude fixed sights were fitted.

Like Ballard's earlier short story, " The Dead Time " ( published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future ), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II.

Near this village there was once a royal hunting-box, where both King Edward I and King Edward II were known to have resided.

Near a hilltop in Brockwell Park stands the Grade II * listed Brockwell Hall, which was built in 1831.

Near the end of 1321, he ordered Stephen II to act from Bosnia supported by Ban Ivan Babonežić from Slavonia, encircling and isolating Croatia.